i accidentally hit the new button a little too early, sorry for the duplicate posts... i have a subroutine which does some processing on html files and stores values from those files into a hash. now up until recently i had made it a habit not to use -w or use strict in my scripts, but well i just decided i oughta start :) so anyway, i have this hash that looks like this:

sub processhtml {
    my ($file) = $_[0];
    my ($filename, $i, $value2, $value3);
    my (@input, @values);

    ... substitution and pattern match stuff ...

    @values = split(" ", $i);

    if ($values[2] !~ /^[a-z]{1,2}$/i) {
       $values[2] = "";
    } else {
    }
    if ($values[0] !~ /000/) {
       $import_values{"ship"} = $file;
       $import_values{"weight"} = $values[0];
       $import_values{"dwg"} = $values[1];
       $import_values{"rev"} = $values[2];
       foreach $value2 (keys %import_values{"ship","weight","dwg","rev
+"}) {
          print TEMP ("\"$value2\",");
       }
       print TEMP ("\n");
    } else {
       $import_values{"ship"} = $file;
       $import_values{"weight"} = "";
       $import_values{"dwg"} = $values[1];
       $import_values{"rev"} = $values[2];
       foreach $value3 (keys %import_values{"ship","weight","dwg","rev
+"}) {
          print TEMP ("\"$value3\",");
       }
       print TEMP ("\n");
    }
}
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now the problem lies in the foreach loops, i keep getting the error "Can't use subscript on private hash" and i don't know why... as weird as it may sound prior to applying use strict and -w i had array symbols preceding them

       foreach $value3 (keys @import_values{"ship","weight","dwg","rev
+"}) {
          print TEMP ("\"$value3\",");
       }
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and it worked, but now this problem is driving me up the wall... can anyone shed any light on this for me?

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